UK poo poo hands!

[star-warrior]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19834975

Faecal matter can be found on just over a quarter of our hands, new research suggests. In some cases the amount of germs is equivalent to the number in a dirty toilet bowl. So why are the British so bad at washing their hands?

Poo, it's getting everywhere. Faecal bacteria is present on 26% of hands in the UK, 14% of bank notes and 10% of credit cards, according to new research carried out by hygiene experts from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). It has been published to promote the UN's Global Handwashing Day.

How dirty are your grubby fingers?

 

[HoodedRat]

I wash my hands (almost) obsessivley throughout the day.

I am surprised at the number of guys I see walk out of public toilets without bothering to wash their hands.

 

[HunterM]

Not everyone enjoys shit. This thread should belong in the fetish forum!

 

[HunterM]

...Waiting for Telstra to give his expert opinion on this matter.

 

[vidarr]

Bacteria is all over everything, and most of it is harmless.. Every time you touch a doorknob, your face, or anything that somebody else touched, you are transferring germs onto your body. A little bit isn't going to kill you, hell your keyboard is probably swimming with fecal bacteria..

 

[refujiunderground]

that's why i look @ all those guys that walk out the bathroom after taking a piss without washing their hands all funny. some of those guys have the nerve to talk about other people being vial and nasty too.

 

[Essex Boy]

I heard a doctor tell a story about a hospital doctor he knew who never washed his hands after having a jimmy. His reasoning was that urine was sterile, he took a shower and changed his underpants every morning, so his genytrottys were already cleaner than his hands to begin with. Mind you, urine is a different kettle of fish from the other stuff.
It's always seemed dirty to me to have the toilet and the bath in the same room. This is usual in flats and common now in new houses. But you don't eat where you shit so why must you shit where you brush your teeth?

 

[trawler69]

Not really bothered. I believe a healthy human body is designed to deal with such things. It has a thing called an immune system I think. I also believe it is good for it to have germs to keep itself in trim. The more sterile and bacteria averse we become the more we leave ourselves open to infections. I refuse to use anti biotic cleaning products for this reason and also because doing so actually encourages the "Super bugs" these are not actually that super, it's just that their anti biotic resistant mutation has been allowed to thrive because of lack of competition from the ones killed off that would probably not have harmed us anyway.

The above is probably all bollocks but I can't remember the last time I had any digestive problems / bugs.

 

[looseliam]

I'm sure there's a Welsh joke somewhere...

 

[Telstra]

...Waiting for Telstra to give his expert opinion on this matter.

My friend from Bosnia was right ?
UK people are the dirtiest, Germans and Japanese are the cleanest, thats what he said don't blame me !!!